{"id":161,"date":"2008-10-20T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-10-26T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:22:29","slug":"corporate-stupidity-sony-and-the-little-big-planet-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Stupidity – Sony and the Little Big Planet Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was announced today (on the news at least … Sony may have announced it earlier) that Sony have released a game called “Little Big Planet” that has a music track that may<\/em> annoy some Muslims. The track in question (please send corrections if I’m wrong) is a Mali language track, and quotes from the Koran. Apparently the singer is himself a devout Muslim. Sony in their not-so-infinite wisdom have announced that they are delaying the launch of the game, recalling all issued game disks, and re-mastering a version without the track in question.<\/p>\n

Glossing over whether this music track really is offensive, it is perfectly reasonable for Sony to do something<\/em> about this. But to do a full recall of the game disks already in the distribution channels? That’s pretty costly, and I would be pretty miffed if I were a Sony shareholder.<\/p>\n

Why not simply issue a groveling apology, point out that it was a genuine mistake, promise to remaster all future game disks without the track in question, and issue an online patch to remove the track from disks that have already been distributed ?<\/p>\n

Incidentally the track in question (Tapha Niang) is available at the artist’s website :-<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.worldcircuit.co.uk\/#Toumani_Diabate::Boulevard_de_lIndependance<\/a><\/p>\n

To “excuse” this mistake, if Muslims cannot agree on what is and what is not appropriate and Islamic, how can the rest of us avoid making mistakes like this ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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